Means for transmitting power by electric currents.



, W. STANLEY. MEANS FOR TRANSMITTING POWER BY ELECTRIC GURRBNTS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 19,1904.

PATENTED APR. 24, 1906.

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PATENTED APR. 24, 1906 ,Barrington, county of Berkshire, Massachu- UNITED s'rn rns Pirrnn'r orrion.

WILLIAM STANLEY, OF GREAT BARRINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

MEANS FOR TRANSMITTING-POWER BY ELECTRIC CURRENTS.

No. s1s,715.

. Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 2%, 1906.

Application filed July 19,1904. Serial No. 217,171.

To all whom it may concern:-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM STANLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Great setts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Means for T ransmittin Power by Electric Currents, of which the following is a fulLclear, and exact description.

My invention relatesto a means for transmittin power by electric currents, and particular y to a means for transmittin power by polyphase alternating currents difiering in ire uency from each other.

he object of my invention is to furnish a system of transmitting power in Which alternating currents 'difiering in phase and in frequency are generated and utilized. One or both of these ire uency-difiering alternating currents are use to develop so-called rotating magnetic fields acting as hereinafter described. -Afurther object of the invention isthe' production of means for developing by said frequenc -difiering alternating currents rotating fie ds upon a motor, rotor, and stator and controllin of their relative directions of rotation wit relation to one another.

A further object of .the invention is to pro vide a means for operating alternating-current motors-at'diiferent or varying speeds. A further object of my invention is to provide a means for changing the relative rota-' tions of said fields for permitting the motor to be operated by either of said currents alone, producing thereby a progressively-increasing speed in the motor.

Somefeatures of my invention may be embodied in either systems in which the frequency-difiering alternating currents are both generated b a single main generator or in systems in W 'ch one of the frequencyditfering alternating currents is enerated in the main generator, while the ot er is generated in an auxiliary or local generator.

In carrying out my invention I preferably make use of a motor which can be operated either as an induction-motor or as a motor having both elements supplied with alternating currents. In the latter case the motor has certain characteristics of a synchronous motor, especially that of speed independent of the load.

The means for utilizing the alternatin currents may be widely varied. In the particular embodiment of the invention illustrated' an alternating-current motor having a rotor and a stator is used, both of the elements or members of the motor being so wound that either element or member may be caused to act inductively upon the other. The conductors on the rotor or stator may either of them be short-circuited or closed through suitable resistances or may both be supplied with alternating currents from external, mains to produce rotating magnetic fields therein. Suitable means are also provided, and the circuits are so controlled that the direction of relative rotation of the rotating magnetic fields may be reversed. In order to produce the starting-oi the motor, the electrical conductors on one of the members are short-circuited and the electrical conductors of the other member are supplied with alternating currents producing a rotating magnetic field of a predetermined frequency. If the motor is to run at the lowest speed, the conductors of one member are supplied with alternating currents, so as to produce a rotatin field of the lowest frequency generated in tfie system, and the conductors on the other member of the motor are shortcircuited after closing the conductors through suitable resistances. In the embodiment of the invention illustrated this may be accomplished by short-circuiting the conductors on the rotor and supplying the conductors of the stator with alternating currents of five periods per second, so as to produce therein a rotating magnetic field of a fre uency equal to five periods per second. In t particular embodiment of the invention illustrated, in Which-magnetic circuits are used for developing the rotating magnetic field, if a five-period rotating field is produced in the rotor the rotor will revolve under the condition mentioned three hundred times a minute, less the slip. The direction of rotation will be opposite to that of the rotating field. It now one of the elementsfor example, the s'atorbe supplied with alternating currents, so as to develop therein a rotating magnetic field of .a

fre uency equal to fifteen periods per second and tending to produce motion in the same direction as that produced in starting and if at the same time there is developed in the other elementfor example, if the rotor be supplied with alternating currents, so as to produce a rotating magnetic field of five periods per second the direction of rotation of which is the same as that of the direction of rotation of the field in the st'ator-the rotor will revolve at a speed equal to the difference between fifteen periods per second and five periods per second that is to say, at six hundred revolutions per minute. The d1rection of rotation of the rotor will be the same as that of the rotating magnetic fields.

If one of the elements of the motor--for example, the stator.is supplied with alternating currents of fifteen periods per second, so as to produce therein a magnetic field of the same periodicity rotating in the same direction as before, and if at the same time the conductors on the other elementsfor example, the rotorbe short-circuited or closed to suitable resistances, the rotor will revolve in the same direction as that of the rotating field and at afrequency equal to that of the fieldthat is, at nine hundred revolutions per minute, less the slip. If the stator be supplied with alternating currents, so as to produce a magnetic field of fifteen periods per second,

' rotating in the same direction as before, and

if the rotor be supplied with alternating currents, so as to produce therein a rotating magnetic field of five periods per second, re volving in a direction opposite to that of the magnetic field in the stator, thenthe rotor will have to move at a speed equal to the sum of the speeds of rotation of the rotating magnetic fields-that is to say, at twenty periods per second, or twelve hundred revolutions per minute. In the same manner if both elements are supplied with alternating cur-.

rents, so as to produce rotating fields corresponding to fifteen periods per second" the speed of the rotor will be thirty periods per second, or eighteen hundred revolutions per 'minute.

erator. Fig. 2 shows diagrammatically the meansfor supplying low-frequency currents. Fig. 2" shows diagrammatically the connections with. the stator and rotor of the motor.

Fig. 3 shows a controller forcontrolling the speed of the motor by connecting it with one or both sources of frequency-differing currents in such a way as to produce progressive variations in motor speed. Fig. L is a diagrammatic view showing the controller and its connections with the various motor and generator circuits. Fig. 5 shows the connections between the motor and generator circuits in the position of lowest speed, the.

currents at that time being supplied by the mains of lowest frequency. F ig. 6 shows the connections for the higher speed, the currents at that time being supplied by mains of both frequencies. Fig. 7 shows the connections for the next higher speed, the currents being supplied from the mains of higher frequency. Fig. 8 shows the connections for thencxt higher speed, the currents beingsupplied by mains of both frequencies.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, in Fig. 1, A represents a two-frerpiency 'alternating-cmrent generator of the threephase type, such as described in my copending application, Serial No. 194,023, filed February 17, 1904, in which the field is energized by low-frequency three-phase currents, so as to produce three phase differing magnetic fields. The armature is connected to the collector-rings B B B and also to a commutator C, on which bear brushes C C C separated from eachother by one hundred and twenty degrees. Fromthe rings lead mains M M which are connected to motor terminals T T T, in turn connected to the windings of one of the elementsof the motor. From the brushes C C C lead mains m m m which are connected to the terminals t t 23 which are connected to the windings of the other element of the motor. At some intermediate point, such as represented'by the line D D, the controller hereinafter described is inserted.

In Fig. 2 the main generator A, an ordinary three-phase generator having energizingwindings a supplied'from the direct-current source G, is provided with collecting-rings b 12 b which are connected to the motor in the same manner as the corresponding rings of the system of Fig. 1. A is any suitable auxiliary or local generator of low-frequency currents, preferably agenerator having its field supplied with three-phase currents, preferably of lower frequency than the currents of the, main generator, the armature being provided with a commutator upon which bear brushes 0 c 'c producing phase-differing alternating currents of the same frequency as those impressed upon its field in the same manner as described in my copending application, Serial No. 180,641, filed November 11, 1903. These brushes are connected by mains with the motor in the same manner in which the corresponding brushes of'Figf 1. are

connected, the controller being inserted at a point d (1 intermediate between the motor and the generator.

The windings for energizing the fields of the generators A of Fig. 1 and A of Fig. 2 are shown diagrammatically in Fig. 2, in which A represents the armature. a!" a 0 represent three-phase energizing-windings supplied with three-phase currents of the desired low frequency from the generator G, and C ICC C C represent the brushes corresponding to either the brushes C- C C of Fig. 1 or c c of Fig. 2. 0 represents the commutator corresponding to either the commutator C of Fig. i or c hear. The commutator-brushes are, shown in Figs. 1 and 2, connected to terminals near the base of the motor. These, are shown diagrammatically in Fig. 2 are StttlUl-t8ii11l31fll5. The terminals at the upper port o1 the motor are, through brushes and slip-rings 1 7* r connected with the rotor of the motor, so that the rotor is energized by the currents of higher frequency.

The controller in Fi 3 consists of e cylin- I D o der provided with a handle E for operating Upon the cylinder are mounted the some.

collecting-rings F F, with which the brushes G G may contact. Upon the central portion of the cylinder are placed two series of contact-plates, those of one series successively ectin to make-contact with the brushes H, while those of the other series act to successively make contact with the brushes H. in the development of these contacts shown inl ig. 1- they are numbered 1 to 13. Contacts 1 5 7 are electrically connected, also 2 and 8, also 3 4- 9. The pletes i, 2, and 4 are also each connected with one or" the rings F. The plates 11, 12, and 13 are each connected with one oi the rings F, as shown in Fig. 4. The connections between the generston crushes and the motor-circuits will also be clear from Fig. 4. In this figure and in Figs. 5, 6, 7, end 8, 5 represents 2. source .011 lowfrequency three-phase currents, such as will he furnished b either the coinniutatorC, Fig. l, or the crdmutstor c, Fig. 2, of the frequency, for example, of five alternations per second. J represents a generator supplying three-phsse currents of it higher frequency for example, fifteen alternations per second-corresponding to either the collectors 40 B B B of Fig. 1 or b b If of Fig. 2-. K K I represent the windings of the motor elements, it bfilllf iinmsterisl which is regarded as stator and which as rotor. I Ii III IV represent the four main running positions of the controller. The connections for these four positions are shown in detail in. Figs. 5, 6, 7,

8, respectively. in the position I the windings K of one member of the motor sre-short-circuited by the plate 18, while the windings K of the other member are supplied with low-irequeney currents through the plates '1', 2, and 3, the result being that the connections are shown as in Fig. 5, the motor operating as an induction-motor supplied with currents of e. i quency of five'periods per second. i In po- ,ion the windings K of t, motor ere supplied through plstes 4;, 2, and 5 with lowfrequency. currents, while the windings K of the motor are supplied through the plates 11, 12,- snd 13 with ciu'rents of a, higher frefi uency nernely, fifteen periods per second.

ih'c connections are such, however, that v is the currents of high frequency tend to produce rotation in the same direction as was formerly produced the currents of low frequency tend to produce rotation in the onposite direction, with the result that a differ.

entiel frequency is produced equcl'to what would result from a synchronous action of a. current of ten periods. The circuits are shown in Fig. 6. In the next position, III, the plate G ats to short-circuit the "indings K, while the windings K, being connected-to the high-frequency mains through plates 11. 12 13, cause the motor to run in the same direction as an induction-motor at on increased speed, due to the action of the currents from 'highfrequency mains. The circuits ore shown in Fig. 7. In the next position, IV, the windings K are connected through the plates 7, 8, and 9 to the low-frequency mains in the same order in which they were originally connected with the plates 1, 2, and 3, while the windings K are connected with the plates 11, 12, and 13, the result being that the currents of different frequency both tend to make the motor ofpcrete in the same direction, resulting in s urther increase in speed equal to twenty periods. The circuits are shown in Fig. 8.

My invention permits of various modifications and constitutes an efiicient means of operating motors by alternating currents, and, furthermore, a simple means of operating alternating currents movedet diifercnt speeds.

The method herein described is claimed. by me in a divisional application, filed on the 10th day of November, 1904, Serial No. 232,122.

What I claim is 1. In a. system of power transmission, the combination of means for producin s plurality of sets of currents of ifiering wquencies, a motor having a rotor and e statorcuch energized by one-of said sets of frequencydifi'erin currents so as to have rotating ma"- netic fie (is impressed upon them respective y and means for changing the relative direction of rotation of said fields.

2. In 9. system of power transmission, the combination of means for relity of sets of currents of differing frequen cies, 2; motor having it rotor element and a stator element each adapted to be energized by one of said sets offrequency-diffe1ing cur rents so as to have rotating magnetic fields impressed on them respectively, means for short-circuiting the winding of one 01 ssid n'iotor elements when the second is energized end 101- short-circint ing the second of'seid elements when the first is energized.

3. In system of power transmission, mesns for producin a plurelity of sets of cturents of different equencies, mains leading therefrom, a motor having rotor and stator elements,-meens for connecting said elements with said mains in various relations and means for alternately short-circuiting producing a plueither of said elements and energizing the other so as to developprogressively-monas-' quency-difiering currents, mains carrying said frequency-differing currents leading therefrom, a motor having rotor and stator elements mechanically disconnected from said generating means and electrically con-.

nected to said mains so as to be energizedre spectively by said frequency-differing currents, and means for short-circuiting one of said elements at one time and for connecting both of said elements to said mains respectively at another time. v

5. In a system of power transmission, the combination of means for producing frequency-differing currents, mains -leading therefrom, a motor having rotor and stator elements energized thereby and -meansfor short-circuiting one of the said elements at one time and for connecting both of said elements with said mains at another time and means for changing at still "another time the connections to said mains.

6. In a system of power transmission, the combination of means for producing frequency-difl'ermg currents, mains leading s sms "one of the said motor elements to the mains of lower frequency While short-circuiting the second element, means for connecting both of said elements respectively to both of said mains, one of said elements being reversely connected, means for short-circuiting said second element while connecting'the other to the higher frequency mains and means for connecting both of said elements directly to said mains respectively.

- 7. In a system of power transmission, the combination of a multiphase multifrequency generator, a motor having one of its elements connected to mains of one frequency leading from said generator, and its other element connected to mains of a different frequency 1 disconnecting one of said elements from its mains and reconnecting it therewith in changed relations thereto.

Signed at Great Barrington, Massachusetts, this 15th day of July, 1904.

WILLIAM STANLEY. Witnesses:

E. T. GREEN, FRANK H. WRIGHT,

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